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Wright Aeronautical produced a French Hisso "cannon engine" which fired 37-ram shells through the propeller shaft.

Eight naval medical officers were first to report for flight training, at NAS Pensacola, having previously completed flight surgeon's course at the Army Technical School of Aviation Medicine.

Dr. George W. Lewis appointed Director of Aeronautical Research of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , a post he held until 1947. Frst continuous night-and-day transcontinental airmail service initiated between New York and San Francisco by Post Office Department pilots, a service which was first instituted on September 8, 1920, but had stopped. First issue of "The Rocket" is ...

Edward P. Warner, professor of aeronautics at Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT , nominated by President Coolidge to become Assistant Secretary of Navy in Charge of Aviation. Dr. Warner served on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , 1929-40.

Name of the Aeronautics Branch changed to the Bureau of Air Commerce in the Department of Commerce.

Weather Service of the Signal Corps was transferred to the Army Air Corps.

National Academy of Sciences sponsored a $10,000 research program at Cal Tech Rocket Research Project for development of rockets suitable to assist Air Corps planes in takeoffs, the first U.S. rocket program.

First commercial television broadcast over WNBT, New York (first successful demonstration by C. F. Jenkens in United States and J. L. Baird in England was made in early 1920's).

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